Help me help them.

September 8, 2006 10:49 AM

Help me find out the specs of our offsite computers.

My company has over 30 offsite employees and we would like to check on the specs of the computers at each site to determine who needs to upgrade. The employees range in computer skills and I would like to make my request as clear and simple as possible. I'm looking for OS, processor speed, harddrive size, RAM, etc (let me know if I'm missing something important). We have computers with anything from Windows 98 to XP (all PC's). How do I ask for this information and direct them in how to obtain it in the easiest manner possible?

posted by chiababe to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

In Word, if you go to "About Word" in the help menu, there's a "System Info" button that gives you all the info. That tool can export to a text file. It will have everything you're looking for.

If they don't have Word, there's another builtin tool, but I can't find it at the moment.
posted by GuyZero at 10:56 AM on September 8, 2006

It's AKA msinfo32.exe. I kept forgetting the "32" part.
posted by GuyZero at 10:57 AM on September 8, 2006

CPU-Z
posted by k8t at 11:36 AM on September 8, 2006

Response by poster: That's perfect, GuyZero. Thanks! Any clue if this will work with all versions of MS Word?
posted by chiababe at 1:08 PM on September 8, 2006

msinfo32.exe should be available on all versions of windows from Win 95 on. odinstream's instructions should work for any version of windows as well.
posted by GuyZero at 2:36 PM on September 8, 2006

What about Belarc Advisor? It gives you all the information you want plus more. It does require an install (very basic and easy) and they'd have to save the page and email it or print it and mail it.

On a side-note, I never knew about looking the info up in Word like that.
posted by schnee at 3:25 PM on September 8, 2006